For me, it’s Jude the Obscure. That book is easily the worst book I have ever read, without a single redeeming quality, other than that it finally ends. I only finished it because Far from the Madding Crowd was so damn good.
But really, Jude is the gold standard of awful books, in my opinion.
What’s your so-awful-it-deserves-shelf-space book, if you have one?
Or am I just weird?
Twilight.
When I went through my Twilight phase those were the first “serious” books I read (before I used to read kids’ books or not even read at all) and thanks to them I got to know about Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë and eventually I got to read MUCH better books than those written by Stephenie Meyer.